Next week the film-maker and campaigner takes Pig Business - her controversial documentary exposing the blight of industrial pig farming - to Brussels to inform politicians, commissioners, councillors and their advisers about the negative impacts of industrial farming on people, pigs and the planet, and highlight potential solutions.

COMMENT Pig Business: behind the film they tried to banTracy Worcester’s ‘Pig Business’, a groundbreaking expose of US industrial pig farming conglomerate Smithfield Foods, has met with repeated attempts at censorship by the company’s lawyers. Here, she explains how England’s libel laws have helped stall the film’s general release, and stopped the world learning more about the environmental realities of intensive livestock rearing

INVESTIGATION Sick as a pigAnother strain of MRSA is emerging from the factory farms of Northern Europe, and it is linked to the insatiable demand for cheap meat on our plates. The Ecologist Film Unit investigates

NEWS Swine flu widower prepares to sue SmithfieldThe husband of the first woman to die from swine flu in the US is preparing a case against pork producer Smithfield Foods, part-owner of the Mexican farm where the disease is believed to have originated

INVESTIGATION BLT Sandwich: The Big Lifestyle Trade OffIs it worse than Mc Donalds? The BLT sandwich is an icon, the ultimate symbol of convenience culture. Tesco alone sells 5 million a year. This is what the £1.80 you pay for your BLT buys...